Christ the King Church:

9596 Reed Rd, Howard City, MI 49329

St. Francis de Sales Church:

829 East Richardson, Lakeview, MI 48850

The Spiritual Life Is a Battle

Friends, our first reading for this Sunday is about a battle between Israel and the Amalekites. To many of us today, this appears to be either an irrelevancy of history or an outrageous story about God sanctioning genocide. But Origen of Alexandria helps us to see that it is neither; rather, it is a story about the battle of the spiritual life. And in the soldiers, Moses, and Aaron and Hur, we see the variegated offices and functions within the Church engaged in that battle.

Mass Readings

Reading 1 – Ex 17:8-13
Psalm – Ps 121:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8
Reading 2 – 2 Tm 3:14-4:2
Gospel – Lk 18:1

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